Obama to Announce Executive Actions on Immigration

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... president Obama will announce his planned changes to the U S immigration system this Friday the moves are expected to get temporary legal status to millions of people currently in the U S illegally ... with more analysis were towing now by Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Meckler from our Washington D C bureau why thank so much for being with us ... its share of the year ... as LR out what deatails do we know about what the president is intending to announce ... well we know is can be very comprehensive is any sense at all on me and undo everything can discern and ... try to fix the immigration system so the centerpieces that is going to be an expansion ... of the program that allows certain people are in the U S illegally to have ... essentially safety from deportation a temporary legal status ... there were expecting that to be several million people ... like the people with deep ties to the US for instance parents of ... U S citizens people it been here for quite a few years five or maybe ten years the ten year requirement ... ALM ... so where expecting that tea party I was expecting changes into ... how low immigration line isn't for ... another With who they kill After was a priority for deportation and who was not ... France incidence of people it been a priority for deportation and the path that had ... pretty minor league crimes crimes may be a ... traffic violation or an immigration violation those people made no longer be priorities for deportation ... on the Hulbert people a series of Capitol Records will still be deported administration will send out the best part of that and and what about the so-called renewed children the scores of children who come across the border recently are they part of this ... well that's why it's so ... in a chill in the dream back into a private pressing on crime here illegally by their parents and ... many of them are team won this HCT from deportation the question then ... is really don't know the answer to right now is whether their parents will win the same kind of air prevents one of the big questions that was ... the son of late in the process of my house okay so what are the critics of the president's policies saying about all of this a mean this is likely ... to spark a big fight with Republican isn't it ... well it's already sparking a big night Republicans that they're saying is that this is an overreach that the president doesn't and the authority to do this he's going around Congress twenty should be working with Congress ... and data center and then there are others who are saying that day that the policy itself is wrong to the nation's essentially the painting that they would call the amnesty for people who are here against the law ... now the plan is being announced eight years and could EPD realtor next year but the Republican controlled Congress ... well that's the case in the much discussed and capital right now they're trying to figure out what can they do try to stop this ... the problem that happening there they could easily pass a law saying you can't do this you can use any money for instance to implement this policy they can do that but ... you know the president to sign the homebuilding salon said ... even if they pass that he is not expected to sign anything like that so then it becomes a question ... we know what to watch today really happy and there's discussion about trying to do and craft very fine the iam worded ... I funding bills that would justify funding for this one thing that still Obama has the ability to be ten ... now the immigration rights groups saying are they up plotting this man ... still waiting to see all the D tells but in general they're very optimistic and hopeful ... that they were any get in the sum of what they'd been hoping for now it doesn't give them everything that they want it certainly doesn't give a pathway to citizenship it's not a ... permanent deal legal status ... on than Obama himself will say the he prefers it out legislation he still hopes Congress will do that ... but yes the advocacy community is pretty hopeful that they're going to get at least in a